Antoine Glatard

Antoine Glatard biography

Resident conductor of the Orchestre National de Lyon from September 2015 to December 2016, Antoine Glatard returned to the ONL in 2016/17 to conduct the «Rêves de Cirque» New Year concert series (Dukas, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Berlioz, Debussy, Bizet...), the opening concert of the Philharmonic Foundation alongside Roger Muraro (Ravel, Beethoven). He will supervise and conduct the youth orchestras of the ONL Academy next November.

Since September 2016, he has been collaborating with the Orchestre / Opéra de Rouen - Haute-Normandie as associate conductor to conduct several concert series («En Dansant», then a musical quizz around Haydn's symphonies, a new pedagogical production at the Chapelle Corneille in Rouen ...). He will assist Leo Hussain on four opera productions: Cosi fan tutte, The Rake’s progress, Francesconi's Quartett and La Bohème.
Antoine Glatard did also conduct Don Giovanni with the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Charleroi last December.
In 2016, he conducted the musical tale Peter Pan (Olivier Penard) with the ONL, at the Auditorium in Lyon. In 2016, he also conducted the opera Milo & Maya by Matteo Franceschini with the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège. In 2015, he was invited by the Verbier festival to conduct La Bohème.

For the 2014/2015 season, Antoine Glatard as been re-invited by the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy for a series of educational concerts with a Mendelssohn-Poulenc program. He made his debut with: the Orchestre National de Lyon alongside Leonard Slatkin at the presentation concert of the 2015/16 season; the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse with Marc Coppey as soloist (Martinu, Shostakovitch, Beethoven) at the Festival Les Musicales of Colmar and, in 2014, with the Kielce Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland (Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn). More, he was the assistant conductor of the symphonic season of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie. He has worked with Ludovic Morlot, Kazushi Ono, Hartmut Haenchen, Daniel Kawka, Michael Boder et Frank Beermann. At the same time, he assisted Patrick Davin for the reprise of Au Monde at the Opera Comique in Paris and for Manon at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège.

Concerned with contemporary composition ans passionate about opera, Antoine Glatard has already worked on two world premieres at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie: Au Monde, Phillippe Boesmans’ opera, based on a play by French writer and stage director Joël Pommerat, and Benoît Mernier’s opera, La Dispute, based on Marivaux and staged by Karl-Ernst and Ursel Hermann. He previously worked as assistant conductor for the Opéra National de Lorraine (Die Fledermaus) and the Monte-Carlo Opera (L’Enfant et les sortilèges and La Navarraise). He has collaborated with soloist singers such as Patricia Petibon, Annick Massis, Stéphane Degout, Stéphanie D’Oustrac, Jean-François Lapointe, Dominique Visse, Yann Beuron...

In 2013, Antoine Glatard won the Second Prize and the Special Jury Prize at the fourth edition of the International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest.

In the past seasons, he conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, SymphoniaASSAI, the Tonhalle Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival String Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra and choir of the Monte Carlo Opera, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Croatian Chamber Orchestra, the Orquesta de Cordoba, Royal Camerata and Duna Symphony Orchestra.

Born in 1984, a composer, pianist and clarinetist, Antoine Glatard dedicated himself to conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Ronald Zollman and Patrick Davin. He received in 2012 his master’s degree with distinction.